Formerly - Divineknits with Infiknit -
still the same comments on the ironies of life

Friday, February 21, 2014

What does it take to win "gold?"

....maybe just an empty net and a flukey missed shot. How many times
have you succeeded in spite of the odds and how many times have you
missed a wide open opportunity?

These moments happened
in Olympic proportions yesterday to the Canadian woman's hockey team.
Down 2-1 against the US, they pulled their goalie. At the face off, the
US got possession of the puck, lined up a shot, on an empty net and then
missed. The Canadian team recovered the puck and went on to score the
tying goal, with seconds remaining in the game!! The person, who fired
the shot that missed, will take that moment to her grave!! I wonder how
it will affect her life?

Alternatively, Canadians may
begin to believe in divine intervention. For the last four or five
minutes of the game, Canada paused - people stopped work, traffic
thinned and anyone, who could, glued themselves to TV screens across the
country to watch a cliff hanger of a game that ended against all odds.

I
am reminded of another spectacular game, also in Russia, a long time
ago. Canada paused then too. Those who could, watched; those who
couldn't, just listened. In my case it was over the PA system, during the
last period of the school day. All of us, along with the rest of
Canada, held our breath, as Paul Henderson scored the winning goal
against Russia.